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[MUSIC: Emerson Quartet, “String Sextet in D Minor” (from JOURNEYS)] Stephen J. DUBNER: In the theater, there is a principle known as “Chekhov’s Gun.” It comes from something once said by Anton Chekhov, the great Russian author and playwright:“You mustn...

By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Claire Messud, Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. How does one write a modern love story that...

Author(s): Jill Fergus With her extraordinary talent—not to mention her two Oscars—it’s hard to believe that Cate Blanchett has not yet conquered the Great White Way. But that just changed, as the 47-year-old Australian-born actress makes her much...

INTERVIEWER You wrote somewhere that we should still tolerate Jane Austen’s kind of family novel. Is Austen a kindred spirit? EUDORA WELTY Tolerate? I should just think so! I love and admire all she does, and profoundly, but I don&rsquo...

Canadian novelist -- and now Nobel prize winner -- Alice Munro sets her taut, acutely observed stories in the rural Ontario countryside where she grew up, focusing a stark lens on the frailties of the human condition. The Swedish Nobel Academy honored...